When I first time installed and started,it prompted me to install something for
the first time start.After the automatic installation is completed,it auto quit
this torbrowser-launcher,Then I clicked the run torbrowser-launcher
agin,Nothing happend and it not start,if I type"torbrowser-launcher"in the
terminal.It show these:"Tor Browser Launcher
By Micah Lee, licensed under MIT
version 0.3.1
https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher
Launching Tor Browser.
Running /home/anon/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/start-
tor-browser.desktop
Launching './Browser/start-tor-browser --detach'...
QFileSystemWatcher::removePaths: list is empty
QFileSystemWatcher::removePaths: list is empty
"

control: severity -1 important

Thanks for your report!

I'm sorry that it doesn't occur on my environment. And I don't see
other similar report neither in debian ML nor upstream.
So I guess it's related your environment. Did you ever install this
package before?

And you may try "torbrowser-launcher --settings" command to download
it again by force.
Please share your experience if you tried. Thank you!

Cheers,

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Hi, I am seeing this same problem.

```
└┌(%:~)┌- torbrowser-launcher
Tor Browser Launcher
By Micah Lee, licensed under MIT
version 0.3.1
https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher
Launching Tor Browser.
Running
/home/mikaela/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/start
-tor-browser.desktop
Launching './Browser/start-tor-browser --detach'...
QFileSystemWatcher::removePaths: list is empty
QFileSystemWatcher::removePaths: list is empty
```

I tried rming the `torbrowser` directory in ~/.local/share and
~/.config which resulted it into being downloaded again. Then I
attempted to `torbrowser-launcher --settings` where I was able to
redownload, but the situation didn't change.

I am typing this from family desktop, but I think I am also seeing it
on my laptop where I am using Tor Browser that I have downloaded by
myself.

Are there any troubleshooting steps I could take to find out if it's
my environment or what it could be there?

Debian Release: buster/sid
  500 testing-debug   deb.debian.org   500 testing
sdscoq7snqtznauu.onion   500 testing         deb.torproject.org   500
testing         deb.debian.org   500 syncthing       apt.syncthing.net
  500 stable          linux.teamviewer.com   500 stable
dl.google.com   500 buster
brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com
--- Package information. ---
Depends               (Version) | Installed
===============================-+-===========
python3:any                     | ca-certificates                 |
20190110
libdbus-glib-1-2                | 0.110-4
python3-pyqt5                   | 5.11.3+dfsg-1+b3
python3-gpg                     | 1.12.0-6
python3-requests                | 2.21.0-1
python3-socks                   | 1.6.8+dfsg-1


Recommends      (Version) | Installed
=========================-+-===========
tor                       | 0.3.5.8-1


Suggests      (Version) | Installed
=======================-+-===========
apparmor                | 2.13.2-7

This might be the same problem reported in this bug:

# ~/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser
# ~/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser -v
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/joey/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libxul.so:
./TorBrowser/Tor/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.22' not found (required by /home/joey/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libxul.so)
Couldn't load XPCOM.
- exit 255

However, I reinstalled the same version, and the problem went away.

Hi all,

I usually get the issue while updating to a new release of torbrowser-launcher.

Using -

~/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser
--verbose

as shared by Joey Hess has made it so much easier for me. Of course
the new version seems to do it by default as can be seen -

$ torbrowser-launcher
Tor Browser Launcher
By Micah Lee, licensed under MIT
version 0.3.2
https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher
Launching Tor Browser.
Running /home/shirish/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/start-tor-browser.desktop
Launching './Browser/start-tor-browser --detach'...

Please my dear i want to confirmed if you receive the last message i send
to you i am waiting to hear from you.

Dear Maintainer,

I get similar behaviour even after deleting the following directories:
  ~/.local/share/torbrowser/
  ~/.config/torbrowser/
  ~/.cache/torbrowser/

The launcher opens the download progress modal, then while the same
modal shows "Installing", another modal comes up saying:

"The version of Tor Browser you have installed is earlier than it should
be, which could be a sign of an attack!"

with only an OK button.  When I dismiss that, the "Installing" modal
stays up
indefinitely.  If I dismiss that and rerun torbrowser-launcher, I get
this on
stdout

Tor Browser Launcher
By Micah Lee, licensed under MIT
version 0.3.2
https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher
qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin
Your version of Tor Browser is out-of-date. Downloading the newest version.
Downloading
https://aus1.torproject.org/torbrowser/update_3/release/Linux_x86_64-gcc3/x/en-US

and exits immediately.

Regards,
Aidan Gauland

investigating it seems to be a bad symbols problem:

======================================================================

/home/omega/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/start-tor-browser
-v
./firefox.real: ./TorBrowser/Tor/libstdc++.so.6: version
`GLIBCXX_3.4.21' not found (required by ./firefox.real)

======================================================================

Removing the local installation and having the launcher reinstall it worked:

======================================================================

rm -rf /home/omega/.local/share/torbrowser

======================================================================

Encountered the same issue as OP in bookworm. I was not using the deb
package before, so not sure if the bug existed in previous releases.

Had to do the following steps to get the browser to launch after
completing the automatic download using "Launch Tor Browser" and
completing the download:
    $ cd ~/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser
    $ ./start-tor-browser.desktop --register-app

This creates a new entry in the menu "Tor Browser" that can be used to
launch tor.

If the "Launch Tor Browser" is selected, it again downloads the browser
but does not launch.

Note that the package should also have
    Depends: desktop-file-utils
since the update-desktop-database command is required by the
start-tor-browser.desktop script.